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229:’s website (1998–2003) was a project composed of web pages with animated gifs, java applets, open source audio files, textual parts written by Stenger or sampled from the Internet. It included VRML movies, web books and “faux films”. Stenger's web books,
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style, this 3D/2D animation is a cautionary tale on the effects of cyberwar on our daily lives. The Wish (2015) is
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